Transnational organized crime1 is an exceedingly talked about topic which fascinates the attention of many public figures and government officials all around the world. To confront both the issue, and those who commit the crime, states and businesses implement specific policies – hoping to decrease the amount of transnational crime around that happens in every corner of the world. Nonetheless, the truth, that due to the underreporting of these crimes it makes it extremely difficult to fully resolve the ongoing problem that passes throughout many countries borders. One of the main forms of transnational organized crime recently has become the fastest growing criminal industry in today’s world -- human trafficking. Not far behind the illegal trade of drugs, human trafficking is the most rapidly growing criminal industry in today’s world and only continues to grow each and every day. Each year masses of children and women, now even a little percentile of males, are recruited or imprisoned from one of 127 countries, moved through transit regions and end up in one of 137 countries engaging in human trafficking.2 Over 27 million humans are trafficked throughout the world today3 and the number continues to grow. Not one country around the world -- developed or undeveloped is insusceptible to human trafficking; human trafficking is a global problem. I intend to argue using ethos, pathos and logos, modern day slavery – human trafficking, is a serious problem in our globalized world. We must raise more awareness to combat the underreported crime through simple programs that the general public can access and be a part of on a daily basis. With globalization is only becoming more and more prominent in our world, the crime getting better at hiding away in dark deceitful places throughout the world. This problem needs to be acknowledged– men, women, and children across the globe need to be more awake of what goes on right under their noses. According to the U.N. Protocol human trafficking is defined as: "The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs." 4 In its simplest definition, human trafficking is the trade of humans, most frequently used for acts of forced labor, for removal of tissues or organs, and sexual slavery. The main forms of human trafficking can be broken down in eight main forms5. Two of the most demanded of these eight forms is labor trafficking and sexual trafficking. To satisfy the demands for sexual human trafficking, women from poverty stricken populations are victimized, being traded or even sold between numerous rings of human traffickers. Women in these situations are seeking to escape from their local conditions of: oppression, lack of human rights, lack of economic and social opportunities, instability and comparable situations. More often than not, populations under such stress occasionally go voluntarily but can also be fooled into working with people involved in unlawful trafficking of humans. The demand for cheap employment is another one of the principal reasons for this transnational crime. Large corporations along with small businesses are continuously seeking for corners they can cut; they are always looking for methods to cut costs. By finding workers who will work for little or no pay at all is a solution for both industries and those who are looking to make a quick dollar. It seems they both find human trafficking to be one of the simplest ways to do this. After abducting innocent individuals sweatshops6 are formed around the world; established by large companies for cheap costs to manufacture goods and high profit margins. Human trafficking is not a crime committed in only specific regions of the world. Trafficking In Persons (T.I.P.) occurs virtually everywhere. The map below gives a worldwide picture of human trafficking, broken down into countries of origin and countries of destination. Human trafficking stories are frequently set in distant places, small towns in India or like cities in Africa, even countryside portions of Brazil. Sadly, this is a misconception: Trafficking does not discriminate against countries – developed or underdeveloped. Human trafficking occurs all over the world, even in developed countries such as -- The United States. Labor trafficking has been discovered in farms throughout the country. Unwillingly, enslaved farmworkers have been discovered picking fruit in Californ